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[cobbledstones]

My wife and I went on a little road trip.  I had to go to a conference in Salt Lake Cityfor work, so we drove from Oregon and hit up some spots on the way.  We timed it so we could hit the Madras Pow Wow on the way back home.

First we tried to hit some spots near Prineville, but it was raining, so we kept heading east.  We got to Glass Buttes…still raining.  Burns…still raining.  Finally, we got to the dried lake beds between Burns and Frenchglen.  There were huge swarms of locus with birds everywhere feeding on the masses of bugs.  We drove through and it felt biblical!  So many got caught in the car radiator that I had to pick them out to not overheat.  The car still smells like burnt grasshopper.  Anyways, we decided to do some hounding in this area, since we were stopped





This is the material that we found, strange stuff, but I picked up a full bucket


I made a cab as soon as I got home to see if it would polish


Stopped and ate lunch near this lonely tree


Then we headed south to the Oregon Nevada border and searched for copper minerals, this is a view from an old tailings pile


There were a lot of green rocks around.  This one was too big to get home, but I managed to break off a nice hunk.


Here is a sample of what we found


Intermission, salt flats at sunrise


We didn’t get to hound in Utah, work took up all of my time and I wanted to catch the Madras show.  We headed straight there, and got in just in time to join one of the organized digs.  I have to say, they knew how to organize a crowd.  Everything went off without a hitch.  We went to the Friends Ranch to dig for thunder eggs.  Here is some scenery.


The diggings


The pile


And a broken egg that was too cool to leave there


Then we went to the Priday Polka dot mine to dig blue ice agate



One of the original Native American mines is still on site


Here is a sample of the material we brought home



We also went to Richardson’s Ranch, and the Ochoco Reservoir to look for rocks, but apparently didn’t take any pictures because we were having too much fun.  The last thing we did was meet up with Lithicbeads, Lithicstrings and Kaljaia at the tail end of the show.  It was great to meet them in person and swap stories.  Thanks for taking the time. 

To sum it up…we had a blast, and brought home 200lbs of rock to play with. Thanks for looking

[lithicbeads]

Excellent pictures. I like your rough that looks like an oolitic quartz. It was fun meeting you folks  and I hope you make it up here to hound later this summer.